Senior Legal Counsel - Projects

Country United States / US City HOUSTON Workplace location HOUSTON-LOUISIANA STREET(USA) Employer company TotalEnergies American Services, Inc. Domain Legal Affairs Type of contract Regular position Experience Minimum 10 years

Context & Environment

Work cooperatively in a cross-functional setting providing excellent legal advice and solutions while collaborating with colleagues, supervising and training junior team members, and realizing potential for innovation and improvements.

Partner with internal clients in TotalEnergies’ U.S. affiliates to provide support on legal and transactional matters with a focus on development and financing of TotalEnergies’ U.S. conventional, renewable and transitional energy projects (“Projects”) and assume responsibility as the primary lawyer for a portfolio of development and execution stage Projects. 

• This position is within the TEAS legal department’s projects team.  The legal team supports a wide variety of energy businesses spread across 150+ entities with a rapidly changing and expanding perimeter. 
• This position interacts with executives and all levels of employees and contractors within the global TotalEnergies Company, and specifically with executives and managers within the U.S. and globally related to development of large energy projects. 
• The job holder must maintain a broad understanding of general application of applicable U.S. federal and state law relating to the energy industry.
• Delivering high quality legal services to each branch of the TotalEnergies Company in the US within the established time and budget while mitigating the client’s legal risk.
• Working collaboratively with the other functional legal teams in support of excellent legal service and equitable allocation of work over time among the legal service providers.

Activities

Provide legal and transactional support (both directly and by supervising junior team members) to develop and finance the Projects, including:

• Advise on all aspects of the Projects from site control through development and construction to commercial operation and financing.
• Negotiate, draft and review both simple and complex commercial contracts, including, but not limited to: NDAs, consulting agreements, acquisition agreements, strategic cooperation and joint venture agreements, real property agreements, interconnection agreements, power purchase agreements (PPAs) and other offtake agreements, feedstock agreements, equipment supply agreements, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreements, debt and tax equity financing agreements, tax credit transfer agreements and operation and maintenance agreements.
• Advise on legal and regulatory issues and compliance (including in relation to tax